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Weekly Cardano Digest #92
From India’s government to smart accounts and DeFi analytics. Cardano’s real-world adoption and technical evolution keep advancing.
Lucas Macchiavelli
September 22, 2025
Hey Cardanians! Welcome aboard the Weekly Cardano Digest #92!
We've filtered through all the noise to distill crucial updates into a breezy, 5-minute read. No need for you to sift through endless info — we've got you covered. Ready to delve into this week's top Cardano news? Let’s dive in.
Here are the topics of the week:
🇮🇳 Trivolve Launches Forensic System for Indian State Government
📊 Token Terminal Expands Coverage to Cardano
🐸 Pondora Launches Cardano’s First DeFi Smart Account
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& More!
🇮🇳 Trivolve Launches Forensic System for Indian State Government
From a Catalyst-funded idea to real-world implementation, Trivolve Tech has officially launched its Forensic Management System (FMS) on Cardano Mainnet, securing forensic evidence for a state government in India serving over 240 million people.
The system leverages Zero-Knowledge Proofs to ensure privacy, auditability, and data integrity across high-stakes investigations. Trivolve expects to process 10,000+ transactions in its first month.
This milestone represents one of the most concrete examples of Cardano adoption by public institutions, enabled by the Catalyst ecosystem and powered by Cardano’s scalable, secure infrastructure.
📊 Token Terminal Expands Coverage to Cardano
Token Terminal, the go-to dashboard for on-chain financial data, has officially expanded its coverage to Cardano.
The platform provides standardized, investor-grade metrics for protocols across DeFi — and Cardano is now part of that lineup. Initial listings include:
▪️ @MinswapDEX
▪️ @LiqwidFinance
▪️ @LenfiOfficial
▪️ @SundaeSwap
▪️ @SplashProtocol
▪️ @Indigo_protocol
▪️ @CswapDEX
This move boosts visibility and accessibility of Cardano’s DeFi performance metrics, helping analysts, investors, and builders understand protocol-level fundamentals and track adoption with greater precision.
🐸 Pondora Launches Cardano’s First DeFi Smart Account
Pondora is now live on mainnet, bringing a major leap forward for Cardano DeFi: Smart Accounts, a concept long familiar to Ethereum users, are now available on Cardano, tailored to its unique eUTXO model.
What does this mean? Instead of managing dozens of UTXOs and manually interacting with each protocol, users get an abstracted, unified account experience. Pondora handles complex logic in the background, making trading, aggregating, and signing transactions faster, smoother, and more secure.
Key features include:
▪️ Smart Account abstraction (one account, multiple dApps)
▪️ Intent-based trading (state what you want, the system finds the best path)
▪️ DEX Aggregation (via Minswap + SundaeSwap)
▪️ AI-enhanced price discovery
▪️ Hyper Mode: passwordless trading for faster execution
▪️ Pro Mode: tools for advanced DeFi users
▪️ Auto-defragmentation of UTXOs
By removing technical friction and integrating privacy-friendly smart logic, Pondora sets a new bar for DeFi UX on Cardano, closer to what users expect from Web2 platforms, without sacrificing decentralization.
Interesting Stories
POLYMARKET: Odds for Cardano $ADA ETF getting approved in 2025 jumped to 90% 📈
— Cardanians (CRDN) (@Cardanians_io)
6:47 AM • Sep 19, 2025
Let's show the world what @Cardano is made of!
The community is taking over Singapore for Token2049 — with a huge presence at the conference and this banger of a party on September 30th.
Come meet the builders and innovators...and have a great time!
luma.com/5ceh7zuh?tk=Ts…
— Rare Evo: A Blockchain Event (@RareEvo)
3:17 PM • Sep 9, 2025
A new governance action proposes 50M $ADA treasury injection to boost Cardano DeFi, focusing on stablecoin liquidity, DEXs, and lending protocols. 📈
It'd be managed by a 9-person treasury DAO.
Do you support this initiative?
— Cardanians (CRDN) (@Cardanians_io)
1:26 PM • Sep 18, 2025
Grayscale's GDLC ETF with $ADA approved, Charles Hoskinson in the Washington D.C. 🇺🇸
And Cardano is trending 🔥
— Cexplorer.io 🅰️ (@cexplorer_io)
12:02 PM • Sep 18, 2025
JUST IN: Santander's Openbank, one of Europe's leading digital banks, now allows users to buy, sell & hold Cardano $ADA. 🇪🇺
Now live for all their customers in Germany, Spain rollout is coming in weeks. 🇩🇪🇪🇸
More European markets likely to follow.
— Cardanians (CRDN) (@Cardanians_io)
6:59 AM • Sep 17, 2025
FACT: 58.03% of Cardano $ADA's circulating supply is staked.
22.11B $ADA staked is worth $19.04B.
If staked $ADA was counted towards TVL, Cardano would rank #2, just behind Ethereum.
— Cardanians (CRDN) (@Cardanians_io)
11:28 AM • Sep 15, 2025
We're just one week away from our technical workshop together with @InputOutputHK and @txpipe_tools in Buenos Aires!
Come join us on September 25th to explore the new frontiers in Bitcoin computing.
Click below to secure your spot 📝
— Fairgate (@FairGateLabs)
3:01 PM • Sep 17, 2025
Did you know there’s an entire Aiken Smart Contract Language course on the Cardano Community YouTube channel?
The course, provided by Rhys Morgan from @StoicPool, walks you through everything from setting up Aiken and understanding simple validators to building helper modules
— Cardano Community (@Cardano)
11:54 AM • Sep 19, 2025
🇺🇸 NEWS: Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson confirms he will join the Senate Banking Committee's roundtable discussing crypto market structure legislation.
— Cardanians (CRDN) (@Cardanians_io)
9:03 AM • Sep 17, 2025
Just a few days until the largest Cardano x India Hackathon - IndiaCodeX 🔥
India boasts one of the largest developer ecosystems in the world and leads the globe in crypto adoption.
@Cardano has a bright future here, backed by amazing events like this one.
More info below
— Nucast.io (@NucastIO)
11:22 PM • Sep 16, 2025
UPDATE: Midnight's Glacier Drop distributing free $NIGHT tokens will close in 15 days. 🚨
30M+ addresses across $ADA, $BTX, $ETH, $SOL, $BNB, $XRP, $AVAX and $BAT are eligible.
As Midnight is a Cardano partner-chain, $NIGHT token will launch as Cardano Native Token.
— Cardanians (CRDN) (@Cardanians_io)
11:25 AM • Sep 19, 2025
Singapore, get ready. 🇸🇬
The Cardano Foundation will co-host The Snek Den with @emurgo_io and @snek during @token2049.
An evening bringing together ecosystem leaders, builders and community voices to collaborate and grow across Asia.
RSVP and more information below.
— Cardano Foundation (@Cardano_CF)
7:27 AM • Sep 19, 2025
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